Evolutionary origins of the emergent ST796 clone of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium

From early 2012, a novel clone of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (assigned the multi locus sequence type ST796) was simultaneously isolated from geographically separate hospitals in south eastern Australia and New Zealand. Here we describe the complete genome sequence of Ef_aus0233, a rep...

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Main Authors: Andrew H. Buultjens, Margaret M.C. Lam, Susan Ballard, Ian R. Monk, Andrew A. Mahony, Elizabeth A. Grabsch, M. Lindsay Grayson, Stanley Pang, Geoffrey W. Coombs, J. Owen Robinson, Torsten Seemann, Paul D.R. Johnson, Benjamin P. Howden, Timothy P. Stinear
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-01-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/2916.pdf